Chekhov Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Facts cling to photographs like dust.

— Andy Grundberg

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding…

— Luke Davies

Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our hearts -…

— Maggie Steber

To me, photographs are like words and I generally will place many photographs together or print them one inside the other in order to…

— David Wojnarowicz

I adore shooting photographs. It's like being a hunter. But some hunters are vegetarians - which is my relationship to photography.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“He keeps going, going, going on; his people groan and fall one after the other, but he keeps on going, going and in the…

— Anton Chekhov

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

— George Saunders

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a…

— Raymond Carver

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped…

— Alexander Weinstein

“Photographs, like ghosts, are the persistence of memory. Over time, people fade from our recollection, or change. Their faces become kinder or more cruel,…

— Barbara Nickless

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became…

— Nicole Krauss

I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles.…

— Max Pam

Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart…

— Keith Carter

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

— Herb Ritts